[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

I just want predictable prices when I go out to eat. I don't want to find out after getting the bill that your idea of a reasonable tip for good service is 25%.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like we need instance level karma where instances can upvote/downvote other instances, and user karma is scaled based on that number. I don't know if it'll be healthy, but it does sound like fun, especially if users get a say in the instance's vote.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

The ah-ha moment for me was realizing that the only thing of value that you get from recycling scrap is holmium ore.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.

Try to make fire.

Fail.

Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

If you're interested in AR, you should pay attention to AI too since it looks like the two fields will be intersecting very soon, if not already. Meta has been putting a lot of work into dense point tracking models with very impressive results. It's probably safe to assume AR is their intended application of the tech given their investments in the Meta-verse.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Generation ability seems to be about the same as any other model. The advantage of normalizing flows is that operations are invertible. That allows you to not just generate samples, but also calculate the probability of a sample.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

It looks like Laurent Dinh (dude who originally came up with normalizing flows) is one of the authors of this work.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

The long-forgotten technique? Normalizing flows. It feels like it was just last year that they were all the rage. It's insane how fast the field is moving.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Take from one group of poor people to benefit another group of poor people? That doesn't sound like a good thing to me.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

We don't need a single mind to understand the entirety of how the brain works. One of the powers of human knowledge is its distributed nature arising from our ability to write things down and create abstractions. What matters in the end is that we as a collective understand the brain.

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submitted 5 months ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

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submitted 8 months ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/fitness@lemmy.world

This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.

While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/

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Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 155 points 10 months ago

Academic Authors: $0

FAKE NEWS

This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

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I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803

I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.

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submitted 1 year ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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submitted 1 year ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/dadsplain@lemmy.ca

I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.

Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!

I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 year ago

I searched through Lemmy posts with that word. Half of them have people asking the exact same question, and based on the answers, I'm going to conclude that no one knows.

One guess that seems plausible is that it's an AI hallucinated word that's showing up a lot because they're using AI to generate the captions.

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Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?

Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.

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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy411@lemmy.ca

Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?

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